Waltons Hotel Dublin
2-5 North Frederick Street Dublin, County Dublin, 1, Ireland
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Not Paddywackery
... at, but I can say it is on par with the less-than-ideal hostels I've stayed at. Located on a dark street off the main drag, behind a nondescript door with a tiny sign, it was a maze of stairs going up, down, and all around. My bed was lumpy, the bathroom floor was lumpy (?) the shower button let out about two seconds of water every time I pressed it (which meant my shower was an exciting dance akin to rubbing tummy, patting head, where I pumped ...
D is for Dublin
... hit the temple bar area, which is basically a four block city area with more bars than a high security prison. My time in Dublin is a bit of blur (and I want to get through this blog so I can get onto the states) so I'll just give you the highlights without going through every day.
Temple Bar, inside the temple bar area, is a bar called temple bar (confusing, no?) which turned out to be the rockingest bar in all of dublin. Actually it ...
Another planet
... Firstly the packaging, everything is wrapped in plastic even the fruit and vegetables, for what purpose I am not sure but often you are not even given the option to buy something that is not in some form of packaging. It’s heart breaking to buy a head of broccoli that has shrink wrap plastic over it, fruit in plastic tubs that have plastic netting over the top of them or mushrooms that also come ready chosen in another plastic tub with cling ...
In Ireland, it's always raining or about to rain
... church we walked through the garden adjacent. We hadn't eaten since breakfast that morning so by this point we were pretty hungry. We had some fish and chips for dinner which we ate in the lawn in front of the Christ Church (another really old, formerly Catholic, now Anglican church). Dinner was pretty good, but neither Brian nor I were too impressed with the cod. Next we walked through the Temple Bar area and into a few gift shops. We dropped off our stuff at the hostel ...
Shared B goes to Dublin
... a tad nervous when my whole team was invited to go to Dublin for the weekend on a trip hosted by The Beacon Hotel in Sandyford. It’s virtually never heard of these days that a whole team is invited on a fam trip so I was crossing my fingers and toes that we wouldn’t be the last.
The build up in the office for weeks prior was pretty big, we were all so excited like children about to go to the zoo. The big day came and on Friday the empty desk next to mine was ...



